Kai 'wusel' Siering @wusel@uu.org

So someone at work has started leaving ducks around. So, I’m adding art captions. Because, of course I am. #ducks #GuerillaArt #office

The Tories are literally dying out https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2022/11/18/the-tories-are-literally-dying-out/ Tory support amongst those under 50 and those who don't own their own homes outright has collapsed. There looks to be no basis left for them as a viable political party

Here's your irregular reminder that:

Twitter was a multi-billion dollar company with thousands of employees.

Mastodon is a niche hobbyist product run by volunteers

The fact that we're being seen as a viable alternative to them is an admission that a federated, decentralized future is not only possible, but desirable.

Mastodon is not one thing, or one place. It's a network of many things and many places. We don't have a spokesperson (I mean, there's me. I'm the official spokesperson for 💯 of the fediverse, but beyond me there is no spokesperson) we don't have consensus on moderation or blocking or tools or what is good and what is bad. Some of us are professional SREs and Sysadmins, some of us aren't. Some of our instances have been around for 5+ years, some won't be here in six months.

And that's good! All of it, every last bit of it is good.

We're wrestling power away from the billionaire class, in real time, and reclaiming it for the People.

Adding broad search (beyond hashtags and local search) on Mastodon would be really useful.

But it could be used by bad actors to find users to harass.

Would you like to see expanded search features?

Please boost so we can gather views across the fediverse.

Today, 2022-11-18, we are seeing a sustained 10,000 new accounts *per hour* across almost 1,700 active #Mastodon instances. That’s 5 times more per hour than in the week before. More than 7,000,000 accounts in total on active instances. These are truly fascinating numbers.

#toriesout

Drei Richter am EGMR finden: das deutsche Informationszugangsrecht ist mit den Vorgaben der EMRK kaum in Einklang zu bringen.

@davidwerdermann zu strukturellen Prolemen für 'public watchdogs' & Hausaufgaben für die Bundesregierung.

https://verfassungsblog.de/geheimdienste-toter-winkel/

Some people asked about donating money to #debirdify and the people who made it. We have enough money to run this service at the moment, so we would ask that you rather donate your money to a more worthy cause: e.g. your local Mastodon server or the Ukraine war relief efforts.

Für Organisationen der Zivilgesellschaft hat Digitalcourage einen eigenen Mastodon-Server eingerichtet: https://bewegung.social

Was endet zuerst, Twitter oder die #COP27? In jedem Fall: Hi, ich bin da.

Klimakatastrophe in Deutschland

(Cartoon von Johann Mayr)

Thousands of Twitter employees who are refusing to work for a petulant billionaire have demonstrated more courage than most Republican Senators and Congresspersons

@PWS_1 and politicians who are interested in real exchange

Keine Steuern

Die Schweiz befreit sich aus der Gasabhängigkeit - modern, sauber - einfach raffiniert